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Aliens and Travellers Control Amendment Act No 16, regulating the control of travellers during states of emergency, commences.

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Hissene Habré is sworn in as president of Chad.

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Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the

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Lebowa: Bantu Administration Amendment Act commences.

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The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat

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The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, says that 697 people are being held for security reasons: 123 under the Internal Securit

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It is reported that the government has banned twenty Black leaders of Black organisations, including the South African Students

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SA signs amendments to a multilateral treaty for the safety of life at sea, 1960.

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SA signs an agreement with Japan on the double taxation on income derived from the exploitation of ships or aircraft in interna

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An open letter is released by twelve leading clergymen from the Church of the Province of South Africa and other Protestant chu

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The Egyptian navy sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat off Sinai, killing forty people.

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Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, arrives in Pretoria by military aircraft, accompanied by his Minister of Law and Order, D.

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Edward Engenas Lekganyane (first known as Talane Reuben), leader of the Zion Christian Church the Star with large support in u

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Dmitri Tsafendas, accused of assassinating Dr. Verwoerd in the House of Assembly, is committed to detention in prison at the St

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The Canadian Minister for External Affairs announces that the government has imposed an embargo on further sales or shipments o

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The SA Minister of Justice states that legislation will be introduced during the next parliamentary session to indemnify the go

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Demonstration in Johannesburg (21-28 October), protesting the issuance of reference books to African women, starts.

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Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya when the British forces defeat the Mau-Mau.

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Dr Johannes (Hans) Merensky, geologist and discoverer of minerals in SA, dies in Westphalia, Germany.

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Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging.

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Moses Mayekiso, SA trade union leader, is born in the Transkei.

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Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation

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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia, businessman, community leader and staunch opponent of the Asiatic Registration Act, born in poverty in

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With Pretoria occupied by the British, President Paul Kruger leaves Lourenço Marques (Maputo) for Marseille in the Dutch cruis

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer forces are defeated by the British at the Battle of Elandslaagte.

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Irma Stern, SA painter, is born in Schweizer-Reneke, Western Transvaal.

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Johan Bernard Zulch Keet, SA musician and leader of the Asaf choir in Johannesburg, is born.

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Marthinus A. Bergh, leader of the Cape burgher petition to the Netherlands, dies in Cape Town.

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Father Guy Tachard (61), astronomer who erected the observatory in the garden of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape, dies

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Piet Cillié (82), former editor of Die Burger, dies in Cape Town.

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Aliens and Travellers Control Amendment Act No 16, regulating the control of travellers during states of emergency, commences.

Hissene Habré is sworn in as president of Chad.

Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the

Lebowa: Bantu Administration Amendment Act commences.

The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat

The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, says that 697 people are being held for security reasons: 123 under the Internal Securit

It is reported that the government has banned twenty Black leaders of Black organisations, including the South African Students

SA signs amendments to a multilateral treaty for the safety of life at sea, 1960.

SA signs an agreement with Japan on the double taxation on income derived from the exploitation of ships or aircraft in interna

An open letter is released by twelve leading clergymen from the Church of the Province of South Africa and other Protestant chu

The Egyptian navy sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat off Sinai, killing forty people.

Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, arrives in Pretoria by military aircraft, accompanied by his Minister of Law and Order, D.

Edward Engenas Lekganyane (first known as Talane Reuben), leader of the Zion Christian Church the Star with large support in u

Dmitri Tsafendas, accused of assassinating Dr. Verwoerd in the House of Assembly, is committed to detention in prison at the St

The Canadian Minister for External Affairs announces that the government has imposed an embargo on further sales or shipments o

The SA Minister of Justice states that legislation will be introduced during the next parliamentary session to indemnify the go

Demonstration in Johannesburg (21-28 October), protesting the issuance of reference books to African women, starts.

Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya when the British forces defeat the Mau-Mau.

Dr Johannes (Hans) Merensky, geologist and discoverer of minerals in SA, dies in Westphalia, Germany.

Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging.

Moses Mayekiso, SA trade union leader, is born in the Transkei.

Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation

Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia, businessman, community leader and staunch opponent of the Asiatic Registration Act, born in poverty in

With Pretoria occupied by the British, President Paul Kruger leaves Lourenço Marques (Maputo) for Marseille in the Dutch cruis

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer forces are defeated by the British at the Battle of Elandslaagte.

Irma Stern, SA painter, is born in Schweizer-Reneke, Western Transvaal.

Johan Bernard Zulch Keet, SA musician and leader of the Asaf choir in Johannesburg, is born.

Marthinus A. Bergh, leader of the Cape burgher petition to the Netherlands, dies in Cape Town.

Father Guy Tachard (61), astronomer who erected the observatory in the garden of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape, dies

Piet Cillié (82), former editor of Die Burger, dies in Cape Town.